Cranberry-picker



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UNn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

-WILLIAM M. KENDRICK, OF DUXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

CRANBERRY-PICKER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters 1 atent No. 600,204, dated March 8, 1898. Application filed December 14, 1896. erial No. 615,688. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may conccrn:

Be it known that LWILLIAM M. KENDRIOK, of Test Duxbury, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oranberry- Pickers, of which the following., taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

My invention relates to a hand cranberrypicker; and it consists in a device by which the stripper can be adj usted in relation to the gathering-fork so as to make the picker adapted to gather small or large berries, the object being to so construct the instrument that the adj ustment maybe made by the user without the use of tools and without waste of time. This obj ect I attain by the mechanism shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective. view of a oranberry-picker with my adjusting device attached. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, a part being represented as broken out to show more clearly the adj ustin g' device. Fig. 3 shows in plan a Sheet-metal plate which when bent forms a casing for the adjusting device.

In the drawings, A B B' A' represent the ground-framework of the machine. The handle consists of the longitudinal bar D, which is attached to the parts B and B' of the frame, as shown in Fig. 1.

E is a bar hinged at C to the barD and has a forked end which engages with a staple F, connected to the stripper H. A spring L serves to throw up the bar E, which action causes the stripperI-Ito be raised up. The stripper H has pivots, about which it swings. One of the pivots is shown at M. The forks are clearly noted by R R.

The above-mentioned parts are not new and need not be particularly described.

I will now describe the parts I consider new. The new parts constitute together a device by which the distance between the ends of the forks R R and the plate I-I' (also shown at 77. in dotted lines) is regulated. This regulation or adj ustment is quite important, as by it the picker may be made to work well for picking large or small berries.

The pivots M, upon which the stripper H is hung, are rigidly attached to the stripper, but

move freely in the swinging levers P. These swinging levers P are each attached to a pin, (shown at N, Fig. 2,) so that by moving the upper end of the lever back or forth the pivots M, about which the stripper turns, are adjusted so that when the stripper is down its plate H' (h) will occupy the desired place in relation to the ends of the forks R R. To hold the lever P in place, I have a spring-Wire S S'. This Wire is bent, so as to pass through the upper end of the lever P. The wire S S' is bent down at right angles, as shown at Y, and engages with one of the holes T T, by which it is held securely in place, so that the leverP cannot move. To adj ust the lever P,

the user has simply to bend the wire S up- Ward, so as to draw the partY out of its hole and to move the lever to such a position as may be desired. This movement will cause the plate H' (72) of the stripper to assume the desired position in relation to the forks R R.

The thin plate (shown fiat in Fig. 3) is provided with openings, as shown. The openings NV W are for receiving the pivot M. The center opening allows the upper end of the lever to pass up through. When the thin plate V (shown in Fig. 3) is bent and attached, it appears as shown in Fig. 1.

I claiml. In a cranberry-picker, a stripper, swinging levers, to which it is pivotally attached,

whereby its position in relation to the ends of the forks is regulated, and mechanism for adjustably holding said swinging levers in' WILLIAM M. KENDRICK.

Witnesses:

JosEPH F. SMALLEY, J. H. DOLLOFF. 

